Getting Screwed On Mileage Rates!

[deeznutz]

I am only in my second year of progression and I get top rate for mileage as well as top rate for mileage delay. I really should be at $19.50 an hour but I was a tcd before full time so I got to keep the tcd pay.

I was getting top rate mileage and delay from the very start. Then I filed a greivance. They got my BA to pull it back or they were gonna take back overpaid mileage $. Now they pay me .39 per mile. I have to get that fixed but mngmt acts like the contract says pay from 2002 is progression.

 

[deeznutz]

The only good thing about the mileage progression is that it's only 3 years to hit top rate as opposed to the 4 year progression for an hourly job. I'm sure the company will try to wiggle their way out of paying us top mileage rate after 3 years though. In my hub, it would be very rare for someone in progression to catch a mileage job, so it shouldn't be much of an issue.

It's an issue after one run because at .39 per mile you're short 86.00 a 507 mile run. It should be 70% of today's top rate. Not 70% top rate 2002.

 

[deeznutz]

Contract page 163 I think but close if not exact page.

It is 163. It says rate established 2002. Then lists percentage progression scale under it. They act like rate established 2002 means you get paid what they made in 2002.

 

[deeznutz]

In order for a run, to be "qualified" as a mileage run....

The minimum is 560 miles. We have several.



-Bug-

Our 2 are 511 and 506 miles

 

[deeznutz]

Again......why?

Sounds like someone likes to leave money on the wood

 

[deeznutz]

Not necessarily.

On an hourly job, I will keep it to the speed limit, or just slighly under by a mile an hour or so.

On a mileage job, I am usually 5 over the speed limit.

On a 10 hour drive time mileage job, that shaves off almost an hour.

A few other tricks can save almost another half hour.

That is close to an hour and a half difference.

So a ten and a half hour mileage job would be around a 12 hour hourly job in my case.

Posted speed limits are for sports cars, not rigs.

 

[deeznutz]

Yes. It is UPS that wants them mileage.

Maybe because they don't want drivers dicking around on these jobs. Get there and get back.

To be honest, that job I mentioned would be at least an 11 hour job if hourly.

I don't seem to go near as fast when I am hourly.

Me and a buddy had past 2 trucks recently and the one guy asked the other if he knew why some Buster Browns went so fast and some others went so slow.

His buddy nailed it.

He said the fast ones are paid by the mile and the slow ones are paid by the hour.

Makes perfect sense.

 

[deeznutz]

NJ metro has mileage runs. Most of those guys work 12 hour days.

Those must be lots of miles and big money. A 507 mile run here can be done in a little over 9 hrs

 

[deeznutz]

Which adds substance to the "where have you been" question from hub managers

I always answer with the name of the city I ran to.

 

[deeznutz]

After one year of progression like you have you should be getting 80% of top mileage rate which between 79 and 81 cents depending on what you pull.

You're correct but I haven't convinced my manager or my BA yet

 

[Mugarolla]

Our 2 are 511 and 506 miles

I pointed out in an earlier post that bug was incorrect.

The minimum is 500 miles, not 560.

 

[Mugarolla]

Yeah they try to give us ungoverned rentals for mileage. All brown tractors are 68 mph

Maybe yours, but not all.

If the speed limit is 70 mph, OH, KY, WV etc, I expect my mileage run to have a tractor capable of at least doing the speed limit.

Last time I did a mileage job, tractor was set for 72.

 

[Mugarolla]

Posted speed limits are for sports cars, not rigs.

If the states did not want rigs doing the speed limit, they would be like Michigan.

70 mph for cars, 60 mph for trucks.

 

[wayfair]

If the states did not want rigs doing the speed limit, they would be like Michigan.

70 mph for cars, 60 mph for trucks.

55 mph for trucks in Cali

 

[MoarTape]

NewPA - LawNJ is about 590. That's our longest. They have runs that are nearly 700 miles in the Midwest. Those are the big money runs.

 

[govols019]

Which adds substance to the "where have you been" question from hub managers

The tractor I normally drive on an hourly run is governed at 68MPH...Every mileage run tractor that I know of is governed at a minimum of 73MPH.

You should only comment on things you have knowledge about.